Artemas Ward Jr.

Artemas Ward Jr. (9 January 1762-7 October 1847) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 1) from 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1817, succeeding Josiah Quincy III and preceding Jonathan Mason.

Biography
Artemas Ward Jr. was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts in 1762, and he became a lawyer in Weston in 1783, and he served in the State House from 1796 to 1800 and moved to Charlestown in 1800 to resume his law practice. He returned to the State House in 1811 and, from 1813 to 1817, he served in the US House of Representatives as a Federalist. Ward then served in the State Senate from 1818 to 1819, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1820 to 1839, and a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers from 1810 to 1844, and he died in 1847.